Ramya Gurrapu

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E-mail: ramya.gurrapu@research.iiit.ac.in
Contact No: 9989829240

Career objective

Be an active researcher in the field of Bioinformatics utilizing my acquired domain skills and innovative approaches

Education

• MS by Research (Bioinformatics), IIIT - Hyderabad, July 2008 - present, C.G.P.A - 8.29.
• PG diploma in Cyber laws & IPR (Distance education), University of Hyderabad, Jan 2011, Percentage - 73%.
• MSc (Biotechnology), Osmania University, Hyderabad, June 2004 - May 2006,Percentage - 74% (Fourth place in University)
• BSc (Biotechnology, Bioinformatics & Chemistry), RBVRR College for Women (Autonomous), Hyderabad, June 2001-May 2004,Percentage - 83%.(Third in class)
• Intermediate, St.Francis Junior College, Secunderabad, June 1998- May 2000, Percentage - 73%.
• Secondary, St.Anns High School, Warangal, June 1997- May 1998, Percentage - 73%.

Academic & Research Experience

• Research Assistant at CCNSB, August 2008 - till date
• Lecturer at A.V. College, Hyderabad, Dec 2006 to July 2008.(During this period, I had been responsible for instructing theory and practical knowledge in the fields of Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology for students pursuing MSc Biotechnology).
• Project assistant at CPMB, Osmania University, May 2005- April 2006

Primary Research & MS thesis

Structural analysis of Pre-mRNA among Co-expressed mammalian genes with respect to Alternative Splicing
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Abhijit Mitra & Dr. Kshitish Acharya (IBAB, Bengulooru)
Techniques: RNA prediction tools like UNAFOLD, RNAStructure and Bioinformatics tools like BLAST & ClustalW, databases like ACEVIEW, ASTD, MGEx-Tdb, and other alternative splicing databases.

Other Research Projects

• Detection of Genomic islands in chromosome 6 of Plasmodium falciparum and their phylogenetic analysis
  (Supervisor: Dr. Nita Parekh)
  Techniques: Integrated Genomic Island Prediction Tool (IGIPT), BlAST, tRNAScan, RepBase, ClustalW and Phylip.
  
• Biopiracy – A study (As a part of PG diploma course in Cyber laws and IPR, University of Hyderabad)
  Techniques:Literature survey
  
• MSC (Biotechnology) dissertation work
  Computational analysis of transcripts of Rice Genes for translational regulatory signals
  Techniques: Sequence analysis tool BioEdit, Spidey alignment tool from NCBI, BLAST, GenBank, EMBL, RGP and DDBJ databases & motif finding tools.
  Presentation: Paper selected at "National Bioinformatics Symposium" held at DBT Bioinformatics Centre, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University College of Fisheries, Mangalore, Karnataka, India held during 1st Feb'06 to 2nd Feb'06
  Publication: Shashikanth M, Radhakrishna A, Ramya G, Geetadevi, Ulaganathan K (2008) Genome-wide comparative analysis of Oryza sativa (japonica) and Arabidopsis thaliana 5'-UTR sequence for translational regulatory signals. Plant Biotechnology 25, 553-563

Conferences and Workshops

• Lecture Workshop in Computational Biology by Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences at Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad (21st & 22nd Nov 2008)
• Microsoft TechVista 2008 at Chennai (1st Oct 2008)
• Indo-French RNAi Conference at CCMB, Hyderabad (12th to 14th Dec 2007)
• Professional development workshops for science educators by Indigenese Biotechnologies and Bio-Rad Laboratories (18th to 21st Dec 2006)
• International Symposium on Genetics and Biotechnology at Osmania University, Hyderabad (8th to 10th Jan 2006)

Course work

Problem solving and programming|Computing tools|Bio-Molecular and Structural Interactions and Dynamics|Advanced Bio-Molecular Architecture|Bioinformatics|Biostatistics|Advanced Biology|

Computer Skills

• Programming Languages  : C/ C++, Perl, Python
• Databases  : MySQL
• Web Technologies  : HTML
• Operating Systems  : GNU/Linux, Windows 98/XP.
• Bioinformatics Tools  :Sequence analysis tools, Modeller9v2, UNAFOLD, RNAStructure, Expasy tools, RasMol, VMD, Pymol, Expasy Tools.

Extra-Curricular Activities

• Volunteered in conducting International symposium during MSc
• Arranged academic trips to ICRISAT, CCMB and IICT
• Active participant in dance and dramatics programs